normal until they've gone a while without eating, then they turn into disgusting creeping horrors, limbs rotting off and gums receding and whatnot. I like this! I also like the idea of some poor person being hungrily tormented by a soft pet bunny.
i like nosferatu vampires, even though during my vampires class the prof was like, "yeah, it's kind of an anti-semitic thing" and now i can't unsee it.
it's a good movie though! Murnau was just influenced by the times like any other director. *uses Caligari icon to show support for German silent expressionism*
Something fun: Years ago, I lived in a small town with a funky little art house theater that played virtually nothing but foreign films. One year, they got a copy of "Nosferatu", and instead of just playing it as a silent film, they got a cool string quartet to play live, along with a vocalist who did performed with them. The music was all designed to evoke the period of the film and the subject matter, and matched each scene perfectly. Amazing, wonderful experience!
Yeah, it was incredibly cool. I've never experienced anything like it before or since. Whoever thought that idea up was a genius. (Apparently they got the idea from researching the old silent movie theaters, where often the music that accompanied the film was played live.) I know you would have loved it!
OMG this is the most horrible poll ever! Mostly because there isn't a giant ALL OF THE ABOVE at the bottom. There are very few variations on the theme of vampires and werewolves that I have issue with *cough*mostoftwilight*cough* Bella(1) Lagosi as Dracula is just as freaking awesome as Tom Cruise's Lestat.
Now I have the urge to pick up my half-abandoned vampire-like-Joss-Wheadon-only-not short story.
(1) Why has nobody else made the Lagosi/Swan connection?
I'm a very non-traditional person where vampires and werewolves are concerned. I do sometimes look at vampires as less undead and more a type of fae creature that requires blood for survival.
I still like this idea. I swear, though, I've heard of a specific type of creature that does that that already exists. Not incubus. Ghouls? Shit, this is going to be bugging me.
There are a lot of different sort of fae creatures (or just creatures) who survive off of blood. Lamia might be one of them. Incubus survives off of sexual energy. Ghouls are (well, generally) humans who live off of vampiric blood).
I was too tempted by "watermelons" but my real answer is probably Dracula vamps -- possibly due to watching Bram Stoker's Dracula at a young and impressionable age. But I am a total monster whore so I enjoy pretty much any non-sparkling vampires.
Werewolves I like being wolfy but other than that don't care, though again I like the classic "cursed" kind. There's something interesting to me in how our culture has taken traditional curses and made them into desirable states. Remember when being a vampire/werewolf was a *bad thing*, the kind of thing you'd kill yourself to avoid becoming? Now they're on calendars in teen girls' rooms. Just an interesting cultural shift.
Two random thoughts: (1) Have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? I want to see it quite badly -- the only movie I know of that makes the obvious phases of the moon = menstruation connection for werewolves. Teen girl PMS werewolves FTW. (2) There's some old Romany (or possibly Romanian, can't remember) folklore that when werewolves die they become vampires. I want *that* movie.
There's something interesting to me in how our culture has taken traditional curses and made them into desirable states. Remember when being a vampire/werewolf was a *bad thing*, the kind of thing you'd kill yourself to avoid becoming? This is so fascinating to me. I remember reading a series of werewolf books when I was in middle school about these poor misunderstood werewolves...I wonder where it changed. The prof I took the vampire class with had some good thoughts on this on Facebook a while back, about the way that these traditional monsters have become the good guys, or at least sympathetic, and what that might mean.
"Ginger Snaps" is GREAT. I haven't seen the sequel yet, though. Need to do that!
when werewolves die they become vampires I like this. :)
Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
I've had vampire watermelons in my fridge before. When melons go bad, they really go bad...I wonder, now, if there's such a thing as a were-canteloupe.
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:16 pm (UTC)I like this! I also like the idea of some poor person being hungrily tormented by a soft pet bunny.
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Date: 2010-09-20 09:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-20 10:15 pm (UTC)have you ever seen "shadow of the vampire"?
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Date: 2010-09-21 12:17 am (UTC)we watched a good chunk of it in my philosophy of art class! but we didn't get to watch the whole thing unfortunately
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-21 12:56 am (UTC)I heart Shadow of the Vampire, but I haven't seen it in aaaages.
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Date: 2010-09-21 09:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-21 05:05 pm (UTC)Something fun: Years ago, I lived in a small town with a funky little art house theater that played virtually nothing but foreign films. One year, they got a copy of "Nosferatu", and instead of just playing it as a silent film, they got a cool string quartet to play live, along with a vocalist who did performed with them. The music was all designed to evoke the period of the film and the subject matter, and matched each scene perfectly. Amazing, wonderful experience!
:)
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-22 03:55 pm (UTC):)
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:10 pm (UTC)Now I have the urge to pick up my half-abandoned vampire-like-Joss-Wheadon-only-not short story.
(1) Why has nobody else made the Lagosi/Swan connection?
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:14 pm (UTC)oooooooooh.
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Date: 2010-09-20 10:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-20 10:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-20 11:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-21 01:03 am (UTC)Werewolves I like being wolfy but other than that don't care, though again I like the classic "cursed" kind. There's something interesting to me in how our culture has taken traditional curses and made them into desirable states. Remember when being a vampire/werewolf was a *bad thing*, the kind of thing you'd kill yourself to avoid becoming? Now they're on calendars in teen girls' rooms. Just an interesting cultural shift.
Two random thoughts: (1) Have you ever seen Ginger Snaps? I want to see it quite badly -- the only movie I know of that makes the obvious phases of the moon = menstruation connection for werewolves. Teen girl PMS werewolves FTW.
(2) There's some old Romany (or possibly Romanian, can't remember) folklore that when werewolves die they become vampires. I want *that* movie.
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:23 am (UTC)This is so fascinating to me. I remember reading a series of werewolf books when I was in middle school about these poor misunderstood werewolves...I wonder where it changed. The prof I took the vampire class with had some good thoughts on this on Facebook a while back, about the way that these traditional monsters have become the good guys, or at least sympathetic, and what that might mean.
"Ginger Snaps" is GREAT. I haven't seen the sequel yet, though. Need to do that!
I like this. :)
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Date: 2010-09-21 03:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-21 09:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-09-21 04:13 pm (UTC)Vegetable vampires -- all kinds of pumpkins and watermelons -- are more annoying than dangerous. Pumpkins and watermelons kept longer than 10 days, or kept after Christmas, will show traces of blood on them, and will go about on their own shaking and noisily disturbing people and animals. Some vegetable vampires go about at night harming people, though not seriously.
From the Gypsies entry in Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters by Rosemary Ellen Guiley
--I have longed to read about a vampire watermelon, although I did ultimately vote for your third option up there.
And, hmm, now I'm reminded of this, I shall walk much more warily past this watermelon that someone discarded at the side of the road...
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Date: 2010-09-22 02:25 am (UTC)